[Opensync-users] No more need for Opensync, donation promise rescinded

[Dotan C. <dot...@gm...>]

One and a half years ago I came to the conclusion that at the
then-current rate of development (one bug per week), Opensync 0.40
would likely be released by August 2010:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.misc.opensync.user/2919

At that time Opensync had about 90 active tickets on 0.40. Now, one
and a half years later, that number has been reduced to 48 active
tickets. That seems to me that the pace of development has slowed to
half it's previous progress level. I'm starting to wonder if the Hurd
port is the problem? :) Too much time on DNF? :)

The Opensync community might be interested in knowing that the
currently restarted KDE sync framework is based on the Opensync 0.22
codebase. They openly laugh about 0.40 never coming through. I've
already given up hope, having recently moved my PIM data over to
Google's terrific services for my personal and business use so that
the info will be available to me on the go. I do back it up regularly
and use a separate Google account, no worries there.

The purpose of this mail is to let the interested parties know that
current code development (the KDE effort) is now 0.22 based, users
such as myself are fleeing, and if you didn't already know it issue
resolution rate has been cut in half (now only two issues per month,
average). Therefore, I rescind my former promises of donating to the
project when it will produce a codebase that works for the
technologies that I use (KDEPIM and Symbian, formerly). I have moved
on and have no further need of Opensync, and I don't want to leave old
promises lying around that I know I might have to break.

Thank you for your efforts, in spite of the contents of this mail I do
appreciate the Opensync devs. I know that your task is not an easy
one, reverse-engineering proprietary technologies with limited
resources in your own spare time. I have only praise for the effort.

-- 
Dotan Cohen

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